Lamp-support.



C. E. GODLEY.

LAMP SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13. 1917.

1,252,6 5, Patented Jan.8,1918.

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OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 EDMUNDS AND JONES OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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LAMP-SUPPORT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. GODLEY, a citizen of the United; States. and residing at Detroit. in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and a strong rigid structure which will not only support the lamps but will also serve as a. brace across between the mud-guards extending over the front wheels.

This invention consists in a pair of lamp supports, preferably .formed by pressing the same from sheet metal and providing them with stiffening ribs and with spherical seats to receive the lamps, anc a tie rod connecting the upper ends of the lamp supports.

It further consists in so forming the connection between tlielamp supports and the lamps that the lamps can be readily adjusted to vary the directions of the light beams without changing the position of any other part of the vehicle.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front View of an automobile showing and tie rod in position; Fig. 2 1s a frontelevation of'a lamp support. Fig. 3 .is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4; is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of a preferred form of tie rod. Fig. 6 is-a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan on a smaller scale of a lamp support and the lamp carried thereby. Fig. 8 is a section showing the connection be-,

" tween the lamp and the lamp support.

Similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views."

, Headlights for automobiles are often mounted on supports secured to the mudguards of the vehicle and in many cases tierods extend across between the lamp bodies for the purpose of bracing the lamps and the mud-guards. These connettions and supports are often so constructed that the stresses come and are therefore to be bent out of shape, is so constructed that it liable to cause these bodies,

while the mounting is almost impossible to vary the direction of the beams of light. I

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 13, 1917. Serial No. 161,737.

shown to be of well known design,

directly on the lamp bodies Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

In the present case the two supports are secured to the mud-guards or fender irons and are connected together in order to brace the mud-guards and the lamp supports. While at the same time the lamp are detachably mounted on the supports.

In the drawing, the. mud-guards 1 are and the lamp supports are connected through the inclined sides 2 thereof and to the fenderirons 2 by means of bolts .1. These lamps supports are preferably formed out of sheet metal, and each comprises a body 3, having a foot 1 provided with holes 5 for the bolts or rivets by means of which it is secured to the mud-guard or fender iron. The body is preferably formed with a longitudinal hole 11 in the bodyv of up to secure the lamp the lamp permits it to be properly posi-,

tightened up. under the head of the hole 11 in the tioned before the nut is washer 15 may be placed this bolt 10 tofully cover body of the lamp.

The outer ends 7 of these supports are formed with holes 16to receive bolts 17 that rod 19 extend through the holes 18 of the tie which is preferably of channel shape in order to be as stiff as possible for its weight and of'sufiicient width between flanges to receive the ends 7 of the supports. This tierod may be, however, of any desired crosssection, 1

After the supports and the tie-rod are secured in position, the bolts .10 are slipped into the holes 9, the nuts 11 being then partially tightened ,and the lamps slipped around until the beams therefrom strike the road-way at the desired points, afterwhich the nuts are screwed down hard. The lamps can-be easily and almost instantlyremoved and replaced without touching any other part of the vehlcle. The proportions and details of construction may all be changed if desired.

I claim 1. A lamp support for a cup-shaped lampbody formed of a sheet of metal and provided with a spherical seat, and a bolt to which it may be bolted to a portion vof the vehicle and a spherical seat intermediate its ends and a hole at the middle of its seat to receive a bolt by means of which the rounded endof a cup-shaped lamp body may be secured to said support.

3. A lamp support comprising a body and a foot at one end thereof formed with holes through which bolts may extend to secure the support in position on a vehicle, said hole in the middle thereof to receive a bolt by means of which a cup-shaped lamp body may be secured to the support, said body also having a stiffening rib extending from said foot to the opposite end, and means to brace said support.

4. A lamp support formed with a foot and with a spherical depression intermediate its ends to receive a lamp body' and with a hole in the center of the depression to receive a bolt to hold the lamp body in position and with a reduced end opposite said foot and provided with a hole in said end to receive a brace.

CHARLES E. GODLEY. 

